Cannonball Read 17

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

This series is good, feminist fun, but this book was a little overstuffed.

Undercover Bromance (Bromance Book Club, #2) by Lyssa Kay Adams

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This series is fun, but I think this one may have bitten off a little too much. I wasn’t completely sold on the chemistry between the leads, even though the rest of the book was pretty good. Also, the Russian didn’t get a name until the end of the book, but at least he has a name now. It was feeling weird to make a whole person a joke. I’m not sure she can ever make him a POV character with all the jokes about […]

A gender swapped romance retelling of a classic rom com

Not the Girl You Marry by Andie J. Christopher

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3.5 stars Official book description: Jack Nolan is a gentleman, a journalist, and unlucky in love. His viral success has pigeon-holed him as the how-to guy for a buzzy, internet media company instead of covering hard-hitting politics. Fed up with his fluffy articles and the app-based dating scene as well, he strikes a deal with his boss to write a final piece de resistance: How to Lose a Girl. Easier said than done when the girl he meets is Hannah Mayfield, and he’s not sure […]

Another delightful Lau novella

A Big Surprise for Valentine's Day by Jackie Lau

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Official book description: Amber Wong has landed her dream job at the Stratford Festival, and life is looking good. Sure, she hasn’t had sex in so long that her condoms have expired, but she’ll just pick up some new ones, along with some discounted Christmas chocolate, at the grocery store. And that’s where she runs into Dr. Sebastian Lam, the son of her parents’ close friends, whom she hasn’t seen in years. He’s moved back to Ontario, newly single, and… Oh my God. He’s really […]

One book’s worth of story stretched into a trilogy of books

The Unidentified Redhead by Alice Clayton

The Redhead Revealed by Alice Clayton

The Redhead Plays Her Hand by Alice Clayton

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Grade for whole series: 3.5 stars Grace Sheridan is 33. She’s an aspiring actress who completely failed to make any kind of impression her first go-around in Hollywood. After a few years away from the limelight, when she went a bit reclusive and gained far too much weight, she’s now healthy and happy and back in Los Angeles, temporarily living with her BFF Holly, who also happens to be a very successful talent agent, while waiting for her new house to be redone. Grace isn’t really […]

The dog on the cover doesn’t really feature much in the story

Trust Me on This by Jennifer Crusie

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3.5 stars Official book description: Dennie Banks is an investigative reporter chasing down the biggest story of her career. Alec Prentice is a government agent working undercover to catch an elusive grifter. When they meet by accident, it’s a case of mistaken identities at first sight. What they don’t mistake is the instant attraction they have for each other, an attraction they’ll do everything in their power to resist—because Dennie thinks that Alec is running interference for her interview subject, and Alec suspects that Dennie […]

Men Who Go to Therapy Are My New Kink

Love Hard (Hard Play) by Nalini Singh

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I’ve only dipped my toes in the Nalini Singh waters (she has two massive paranormal romance series), so I wasn’t at all sure what I would be getting when I requested an arc of Love Hard from NetGalley. I also knew that I was dropping into the third book in a series, which is a spin off of another series, none of which I had read either. The prologue was fine, but the first couple of chapters worried me. I was afraid it would be […]



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